X-Nico

17 unusual facts about Curitiba


Andrés Manuel López Obrador

An express bus service, the "Metrobús", based on the successful Curitiba model, was built down Avenida Insurgentes, cutting through the city some 20 km from north to south.

Botanical Garden of Curitiba

It is the major tourist attraction and landmark of the city, and it houses part of the campus of the Federal University of Paraná.

Dalton Trevisan

His short stories are inspired in the daily life of his home city of Curitiba, though featuring characters and situations of universal meaning.

International School of Curitiba

The International School of Curitiba (ISC), founded in 1959, is located in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil.

J. Malucelli Futebol

Malucelli, and formerly known as Malutrom and as Corinthians Paranaense, is a Brazilian football team from the city of Curitiba, Paraná state, founded on December 27, 1994.

José Maria de Santo Agostinho

He was born near Curitiba, but little is known about his early life.

Karl-Rudolf Koch

In 1983, 1985 he lectured in Curitiba in the fields of adjustment and statistics and in 1985, 1986, 1987 he conducted various lectures in Wuhan, Haifa, and Calgary in adjustment and statistics.

Marcelo Tosatti

He was brought up in Curitiba, Brazil and worked for Conectiva for six years, during which time he became involved in kernel programming.

Metro Rapid

Inspiration for the program partly came from the transportation network of Curitiba in Brazil, although the concept in nascent form was first broached in a restructuring study long before local officials' famous trip there.

Ned Kock

He holds a B.E.E. in Electrical Engineering from the Federal Technological University of Parana at Curitiba, Brazil, a M.Sc.

Padma Samten

Because of his work integrating Buddhism and mind training to the fields of psychology, medicine, economy and education, he has been awarded honorary citizenship in Curitiba (2008) and Viamão (2012).

Poles

The city of Curitiba has the second largest Polish diaspora in the world (after Chicago) and Polish music, dishes and culture are quite common in the region.

Richard Cragun

He left Berlin in 1999 to start a new ballet company in the Brazilian city of Curitiba and at the Teatro Municipal of Rio de Janeiro with his partner Roberto de Oliveira.

Rio de Janeiro bid for the 2007 Pan American Games

Rio de Janeiro got another boost from succeeding in preparing to host the 2002 South American Games, with competitions held in four different capital cities—Curitiba, Belém, Rio de Janeiro, and São Paulo—in as little as three months in advance.

Sociedade Brasileira para o Progresso da Ciência

In the next meetings, in Curitiba (1950) and Belo Horizonte (1951), increasing participation and enthusiasm followed, with the Brazilian Academy of Sciences first involvement, as well as of other scientific societies.

The Green Initiative

The purpose of the Project done by The Green Initiative is the neutralization of the Greenhouse gasses (GHG) emissions related to the realization of the COP 8 through the reforestation of a degraded riparian area in the City of Curitiba .

Tomasz Wylenzek

Wylenzek won two junior world championship titles in 2001 at Curitiba, Brazil.


2010 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil

The 2010 FIA WTCC Race of Brazil (formally the 2010 FIA WTCC HSBC Race of Brazil) was a World Touring Car Championship round held at Autódromo Internacional de Curitiba near Curitiba, Brazil on 7 March 2010.

2010 GT Brasil season

Stumpf and Brito won five races during the season including sweeping the weekend at the second Interlagos meeting and at Velopark, as well as a victory at the second meeting to be held in Curitiba.

Aerolloyd Iguassu

Aerolloyd Iguassú was founded in the beginning of 1933, in Curitiba, Brazil with initial financial support from the mate manufacturer Matte Leão.

Alphaville, São Paulo

Beginning in the 1990s, the company, now renamed Alphaville Urbanismo, expanded its developments to several other cities in Brazil, such as Aracaju, Campinas, São José dos Campos, Ribeirão Preto, Rio de Janeiro, Goiania, Curitiba, Londrina, Maringá, Salvador, Fortaleza, Belo Horizonte, Natal, Gramado, Manaus, and others, as well as to Portugal (in Cascais).

Buddhism in Brazil

It maintains affiliated groups in Belo Horizonte, São Paulo and Curitiba, and has invited a large number of international teachers through the years.

Colégio Integral

Sei-Sociedade de Educação Integral, known as Colégio Integral, has been in the city of Curitiba in Brazil since 1989, focused on the pedagogic methods of Célestin Freinet.

Colégio Militar

The Portuguese Colégio Militar gave birth to a net of twelve military schools in Brazil (Porto Alegre, Santa Maria, Curitiba, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Juíz de Fora, Salvador, Recife, Fortaleza, Manaus, Brasília and Campo Grande) built in cooperation with the Portuguese experience of a centenary school with high levels of success.

Conectiva

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

FIA WTCC Race of Brazil

The 2011 Race of Brazil had originally been scheduled to be held at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace in São Paulo but reverted to Curitiba a month before the event owing to renovation works being carried out at the Interlagos circuit.

Four Year Strong

The band will be with New Found Glory and Attack Attack! in September 2011 in Brazil on the XLive Music Festival (Curitiba 08/09, Rio de Janeiro 09/09 and São Paulo 10/09).

Gerson Levi-Lazzaris

Gerson Levi-Lazzaris (born in Curitiba, on November 25, 1979) is a Brazilian archaeologist, descendent of Ladin immigrants.

Gilson Luís Pinheiro Júnior

Gilson Luís Pinheiro Júnior known as Juninho (born 21 April 1985 in Curitiba, Brazil) is an association footballer who plays as midfielder for FC Serrières in the Swiss 2. Liga Interregional.

Giulio Romano Vercelli

There are collections of his art in Buenos Aires, Curitiba, Genoa, Gualeguay, Montecatini Terme and Piacenza.

Henrique de Curitiba

In 1981 Morozowicz received the Master's Degree at the Cornell University and the Ithaca College in New York, under guidance of Karel Husa, and became a well-known and recognised composer as "Henrique de Curitiba".

Michael Pisaro

Concert length portraits of his music have been given in Munich, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Mexico City, Seattle, Jerusalem, Madrid, Santiago, Vienna, New York, Brussels, Curitiba (Brazil), Berlin, Chicago, Düsseldorf, Zürich, Charleston, Toronto, Cologne, Aarau and elsewhere.

Palestra Itália

Palestra Itália Futebol Clube, a defunct Brazilian football club from Curitiba, Paraná state

Punk in Brazil

Then came AI-5 and N.A.I. (later known as Condutores de Cadáver) in São Paulo, as well as Carne Podre in Curitiba and Aborto Elétrico in Brasília.

Rasch

Carlos Rasch (born 1932, Curitiba, Brazil), a Brazilian-German science fiction author

TransMilenio

Inspired by Curitiba's Rede Integrada de Transporte (Integrated Transportation Network), TransMilenio consists of several interconnecting BRT lines, each composed of numerous elevated stations in the center of a main avenue, or "troncal".

Vegetarianism by country

Since the 1990s, and especially since the 2000s, several vegetarian and vegan restaurants appeared in the metropolitan regions of São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Curitiba and Rio de Janeiro.